Peter Watson is a business writer and intellectual historian from London, England.

He has written for The New York Times, The Sunday Times, The Observer and The Spectator. In June 1997, he was appointed Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge. He has written several books.

Books

• The Medici Conspiracy: The illicit journey of looted antiquities from Italy's tomb raiders to the world's greatest museums (2006) ISBN 1586484028
• Ideas: A history of thought and invention, from fire to Freud (2005) ISBN 006621064X
• Modern Mind: An intellectual history of the 20th century (2001) ISBN 0060084383
• Sotheby's: The inside story (1998) ISBN 0679414037
• Landscape of Lies (1989) ISBN 1933397187